Software Sources

5/7/97 Update: I have officially released rwx-06c.

4/7/97 Update: I have added links to Klaus Prichatz's wetter programs which also can read and use the real weather data.

• X-Plane: already supports this weather data natively. Click here for additional X-Plane specific information.

• MSFS-95/98: Jeff Wheeler (j4cwheel@ix.netcom.com) has written a nice system that integrates well with the latest MS offering. It changes the weather environment as you fly with MS flight simulator 95 to actual weather that can be downloaded from this page. Click here for more info.

  Alternative: WETT95-2 by Klaus Prichatz KPrichatz@aol.com -- Random and real weather generator for FSFW95. Creates up to three different weather areas with thunderstorms, cloud layers, wind layers, temperature depending on location, visibility, time and season. Generates calm weather for VFR flights or severe weather for IFR flights. Reads real weather files. Generates random flight assignments. FS5.1 users please download WETTER7.ZIP. Note: this is a shareware product which you will need to register to get full functionality.

• MSFS 5.x (non-FSFS): Real-WX Version 0.6c -- This new release should now properly convert Canadian temps reported in Celsius to Farenheit.
  Here is a clever tutorial for Setting all Three WX Areas with Real-WX Max Harald Vargas Diez (harv@codetel.net.do)

  Alternative: WETTER7 by Klaus Prichatz KPrichatz@aol.com -- Random and real weather generator for FS5.1. Creates up to three different weather areas with thunderstorms, cloud layers, wind layers, temperature depending on location, visibility, time and season. Generates calm weather for VFR flights or severe weather for IFR flights. Reads real weather files. Generates random flight assignments. FSFW95 users please download WETT95-2.ZIP. Note: this is a shareware product which you will need to register to get full functionality.

• MSFS 5.x (with FSFS): Flight Shop Adventure Generator (wxadv2.zip) -- I am also coordinating with Jeff Wheeler j4cwheel@ix.netcom.com who has writen a wonderful program to generate FSFS adventures from this data. He has had great success so far and has generated a working adventure with upwards of eighty (that is eight zero) (80) weather areas.

  Here is a nicely done WXADV Tutorial written by Bob Bobic rbobic@ix.netcom.com.

  Here is a batch file written by Verne Cotton vcotton@inland.net to use to convert weather data into a stand alone adventure file. Once converted and and written into the proper folder, you can use wxadv2 to make it a custom adventure.

  Here is a sample adventure. This adventure was generated from data available on 3/30/96 at about 11:00am. It contains about 40 weather areas from across the USA & Canada. Note when the generator is ready, you will be able to generate your own adventures, selecting current weather for up to 80 cities from a list of about 1250 cities from all over the USA and Canada.

• Source code for the routines used to decode this weather information.

Last modified: 6/4/1998
Curtis L. Olson